Getting drunk Quote by Kundera Milan

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for…

— Milan Kundera

“He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body…

— Milan Kundera

“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it from genteel,…

— Howard Goodall

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself…

— Rodney Mullen

The piano has been drinking, not me.

— Tom Waits

“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art…

— Haruki Murakami

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

— Karl Barth

“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if…

— Tiffany Madison

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

— Roy Blount, Jr